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Summary: Fabulous!!!!
Review: I love love stories with strong, interesting characters where I understand what each lover sees in each other. This is the best love story I've seen in a long time. Kenny Doughty is full of self confidence and playfulness with a rare emotional range that is irresistable to me. Andie MacDowell matches him in her vunerability and believability. The many, delicious sex scenes, without being overly graphic are sizzling. In each new interaction between them, I see why they are falling so deeply in love. The friendships between the women and the overall plot of society's strict regulations on relationships pale in comparison to the lively, profound connection these two characters achieve.
We could all just hope to have a little of this in our lives.
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Summary: Love it
Review: I love this moive, I always watch it when I need a good cry.
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Summary: Okay movie, despite starring Andie MacDowell
Review: I normally can't stand Andie MacDowell who always seems to be reading the script for the first time. But I have to admit that I liked this movie more than I thought I would. The 2 actresses who played her friends were excellent and "Jed" was amazing. He really captured the essence of the character and made you care what happened to him, which made the ending all the more affecting. I hope we see Kenny Doughty in more movies in the near future.
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Summary: Crush
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, though it was definitely not the light-hearted comedy I was expecting. As a 25-year-old young professional, I settled into my couch on a rainy weekday night hoping to raise my spirits and de-stress with an old-fashioned romance infused with british humour, a la four weddings and a funeral. I found myself at the end of two hours with tears streaming down my face. The pluses of the film include the luminous performance by Andie McDowell -- she is concurrently believable as the prim headmistress of a little English town as well as an ethereally beautiful woman with a naughty side -- interesting enough to steal the heart of a younger guy. Her rapport with Kenny Doughty is truly touching (and many woman can reminesce of the time they fell so much in lust and in love with someone not-just-quite-right but oh-so-alluring). Jed, as the quirky little raver boy-slacker, I have to admit, stole my heart. The minuses -- during the second half of the film, I kept wondering why the director didn't stick to Jed and Kate's story. I sincerely wish someday, he would be inspired to come out with Crush Version 2... not focused on the horrifically catty women Kate calls her friends. And with a happier ending.
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Summary: Searching For The Soundtrack...
Review: I thought the movie was good in a "watch once but never again" sort of way. The acting was decent but the plot had some slow points and the ending was dissapointing. I'm in search of the soundtrack for this movie though. I can't find it anywhere except on Amazon Germany. if anyone can help me get a copy I would be VERY appreciative!
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Summary: Fair movie...
Review: I thought the movie was good in a "watch once but never again" sort of way. The acting was decent but the plot had some slow points and the ending was dissapointing. Something bothered me about the way the story flowed and I still can't seem to put my finger on it, but I thought the movie was OK and held my interest the entire time, but I wouldn't watch it again.
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Summary: Only the acting deserves any credit
Review: I thought when I picked this movie up from the video store that it was a light-hearted comedy about female friendships (that's the way it's marketed). I was partially correct. The first half of the movie is quite fun and has a little bit of romantic suspense to it--of the "Is he or isn't he a decent guy" variety. Then out of nowhere comes a plot "twist" that is extremely cruel and unnecessary to wreck the whole thing. The 45 minutes or so that follow are completely unbelievable and wimpy on the part of writer/director McKay. If he had ever paid attention to female relationships, he would know that his resolution to this movie is laughable. No one in their right minds would forgive the things that Andie McDowell's character is expected to get over in this movie, and they sure as heck wouldn't be as peaceful about the way everything turned out as she is by the time the credits roll. The only reason that this movie got the rating it did from me is that the acting is actually quite good, but that doesn't save this movie. Ridiculous.
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Summary: Mixed feelings
Review: I'm still trying to sort through my reaction to this film, so I suppose you could say it hit a nerve. The previews for "Crush" made it seem like such a fun chick flick, so I anticipated it to be just that. And it started as such - funny, brilliant women chatting about life and love (or the lack thereof). And then the sexual heat got turned up with a cute Scottish organist that falls for Andie McDowell. One of the female friends gets jealous/envious, and all hell breaks loose. The film then spirals out of control, going from a sweet, heart-warming romance to a very unhappy set of circumstances. It was such a strange, sad turn, and it put the film into a whole different category. Not at all what I expected, and it was not a pleasant surprise. It really threw me (perhaps that was the intention of the film), and it sort of soured the rest of the experience. I left the film feeling a little cheated and a little disappointed. True, it did make me feel, but I had gone into the film hoping for a fun romp, but came out of it feeling unsettled and sad. Wish the marketing folks would have let the audience know what we were in for.
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Summary: Unfortunate movie -- **1/2
Review: Recently seeing GREEN CARD led to me borrowing this from the library, where I had been ignoring it. Andie MacDowell is a fabulous, underreated actress. She has that smile that hits a man like a truck. The other two lead actresses, Imelda Staunton (the Police Inspector) and Anna Chancellor (the golddigging GP) are also fine as the English best friends of MacDowell, an American headmistress at an English prep school (an obviously improbable combination). All three do well with what they are given, but this movie flounders in its own confusion. It doesn't know what to be; the little comedy there is is poorly written, the melodrama is more than excruciating, and basically the thing just doesn't hang together. Writer/Director John McKay could have used a better editor, both of the film and of the script. A little outside criticism from some well meaning friends may have made the thing more coherent. He tries to synthesize a screwball cartoonish essence with a sappy "growth through emotional turmoil and healing" thing that never seems to work. From the credits, McKay adopts a great comic style (reminiscent of Wes Anderson), using hard cuts and thematic music to introduce the characters to us that is excellent, but that flavor of ironic spontaneity is promptly lost, never to return. The relationship between the three women never even rises to the level of its own cliché, so its scheming quality and eventual breakdown is obnoxious and never either believable or amusing, being neither dramatic nor comic. MacDowell's relationship with the kid was annoying more than anything. It never seemed like a real relationship. I found him to be a rather odious little fellow, and fairly stupid. Thus I kind of rooted for her friends in trying to break it up. However, Chancellor's character was underwritten and cartoonish, thus her subsequent behavior, when McKay is awkwardly trying to turn it into a drama, is merely ridiculous. Ultimately, the film is as superficial and two-dimensional as the characters, and mainly through underdevelopment. Oh well. Too bad. Life goes on. All in all a mediocre chick flick.
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Summary: Very Emotive
Review: The first time I saw this movie was on British Airways on my way from London to Houston, it was such a nice movie, I usually hate long flights but this movie made my flight an agreable one.
It was really a very sad movie, very touching, I was very sad for Kate, character played by Andie MacDowell, it shows how friends when they try to over protect you, they ruin your life, the music is great and very emotive.
When I came home, I bought it because I needed a copy of that great piece of art.
The character is beautifully played by the inborn talented Andie MacDowell.
I strongly recommend you to buy this movie, you'll surely enjoy everything, the moral of the story, the music and all the other characters. It's also in a nice setting in England, very beautiful landscape. And prepare your handkerchief because you won't be able to hold your tears. Even guys will cry.
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